Conversation Quotes

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Even his conversation was, as it were, a spoken part.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

Who says you’ll get hurt again?”I pouted. “Have you met you?” “Right.

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then.

The people who ask questions decide the quality of their conversation.

The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one's head before having it with the intended party.

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.

I like the way you secretly send me a direct message when we're in the middle of a conversation.

So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm....

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation.

Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

what a sad pair we are, " she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

Just because you talk about it or advocate for one position doesn't mean you care more. Just because someone doesn't talk about it and advocates a different position doesn't mean they care less.

But before she tells you anything." I glared at him suspiciously."your seed..."Tsaeb winced."What the hell are you talking about?""your...well, your seed. You know, you have to knock her up.

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others but only widen it.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues. That is all.

He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Communication is and should be hell fire and sparks as well as sweetness and light.

You never say a word of yourself dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

When I think over what I have said I envy dumb people.

You can never hope to become a skilled conversationalist until you learn how to put your foot tactfully through the television set.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.

Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.

The less men think the more they talk.

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.

I like to be at a party and be a quiet observer, be in conversation. I wouldn't say I was a class clown growing up, but I would definitely sit back in class and take snipes at the teacher.

I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.